02571cam a22003017 4500001000700000003000500007005001700012008004100029100002600070245016100096260006600257490004200323500001900365520095600384530006101340538007201401538003601473690010601509690012901615690014801744690014001892700002002032700002302052710004202075830007702117856003802194856003702232w13793NBER20161209221959.0161209s2008 mau||||fs|||| 000 0 eng d1 aRuebeck, Christopher.10aActing White or Acting Blackh[electronic resource]:bMixed-Race Adolescents' Identity and Behavior /cChristopher Ruebeck, Susan Averett, Howard Bodenhorn. aCambridge, Mass.bNational Bureau of Economic Researchc2008.1 aNBER working paper seriesvno. w13793 aFebruary 2008.3 aAlthough rates of interracial marriage are on the rise, we still know relatively little about the experiences of mixed-race adolescents. In this paper, we examine the identity and behavior of mixed-race (black and white) youth. We find that mixed-race youth adopt both types of behaviors -- those that can be empirically characterized as "black" and those that can be characterized as "white". When we combine both types of behavior, average mixed-race behavior is a combination that is neither white nor black, and the variance in mixed-race behavior is generally greater than the variance in behavior of monoracial adolescents, especially as compared to the black racial group. Adolescence is the time during which there is most pressure to establish an identity, and our results indicate that mixed-race youth are finding their own distinct identities, not necessarily "joining" either monoracial group, but in another sense joining both of them. aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers. aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files. aMode of access: World Wide Web. 7aJ11 - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts2Journal of Economic Literature class. 7aJ13 - Fertility • Family Planning • Child Care • Children • Youth2Journal of Economic Literature class. 7aJ15 - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants • Non-labor Discrimination2Journal of Economic Literature class. 7aZ13 - Economic Sociology • Economic Anthropology • Social and Economic Stratification 2Journal of Economic Literature class.1 aAverett, Susan.1 aBodenhorn, Howard.2 aNational Bureau of Economic Research. 0aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)vno. w13793.4 uhttp://www.nber.org/papers/w1379341uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w13793